Venue editing issue

This article may be relevant if you see the following error message from the Talks.cam website when trying to Edit the Venue of an existing Talk.

• If you were NOT trying to Edit the Venue of an existing Talk when you saw this error message, then please see: Error - Rails application failed to start properly.

Application Error

Rails application failed to start properly

Scenarios which should not be affected

The above error message and workaround should only apply when trying to Edit the Venue of an existing Talk, the following scenarios should still continue to work as normal:

• NOT AFFECTED: Creating a new Talk from scratch for the first time should work normally
  • NOTE: this means that IF you are able to enter the correct Venue when first creating the Talk, then you won't encounter the Venue-editing problem (if there are no subsequent changes of Venue)
• NOT AFFECTED: Editing ALL OTHER fields (e.g. Title, Abstract, Speaker, Special Message etc.) should work normally

Examples of using Special Message to indicate a change of Venue

Here is an example List containing three talks, one of which has had its Venue confirmed since it was first created, another of which has had its Venue changed since it was first created, using the "Special Message" field to indicate these changes: